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Caribbean Nations Should Push for Climate Finance at COP27, Bahamas PM Says

By Jasper Ward   NASSAU, Aug 16 (Reuters) – Caribbean countries should pressure developed nations to provide more financing to mitigate the effects of climate change at the upcoming COP27 climate talks, the prime minister of The Bahamas said at a summit of regional officials on Tuesday. The members of the Caribbean community need to […]

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Five Countries, Five Meals – Tackling a Worldwide Food Crisis

By Stephanie Hegarty Population correspondent, BBC World Service Food is becoming more expensive, and sometimes scarcer, all over the world. Everywhere people are having to adapt to the new circumstances, and sometimes this means changing what they eat. Late-night runs to Walmart in the US It’s 04:00 and the air is already sticky with the […]

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Cuba Bids for Foreign Investment to Tackle Goods Shortages

By Malu Cursino BBC News Cuba says it will allow foreign investors into its wholesale and retail trade for the first time in 60 years. The move is a major shift for the island nation’s Communist government, and overturns a 1960s Fidel Castro policy of nationalising retail. But Cuba is now facing its most severe […]

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Women Empowerment Post-COVID: Federation Benefiting from Taiwanese Funded Project

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, August 16, 2022 (MMS-SKN) — The Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis is among the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean that are benefitting from the Republic of China (Taiwan) in assisting the economic empowerment of women post-pandemic of COVID-19 through the Women Employment, Entrepreneurship and Financial Inclusion Project. “The Women […]

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REUTERS WORLD NEWS: Crimea Explosion, Rus No Need for Nukes, Kenya Election, More

The Reuters Daily Briefing Tuesday, August 16, 2022 by Linda Noakes Hello Here’s what you need to know. Russia says it has ‘no need’ to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, Trump’s revenge campaign takes aim at Cheney, and Kenya braces for a legal battle after Ruto is declared president-elect Today’s biggest stories A view shows […]

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187 Cuban Migrants Arrested After Landing in Florida on 10 Boats

by Santana Salmon CBN- U.S. immigration officials say 187 Cuban migrants have been arrested after landing in the Florida Keys on ten separate boats over the weekend. Chief Patrol Agent Walter Slosar of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection posted images of the small boats without passengers on Twitter. The Miami Herald said a large […]

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Four Plead Guilty to Attack on Grenada Javelin Champ

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Chief Magistrate, Teddy St Louis, will on Wednesday sentence four Trinidad and Tobago nationals who pleaded guilty to committing grievous harm on Grenada’s reigning World javelin champion, Anderson Peters. The four, including Noel Cooper, 42, the captain of the Barbados-owned vessel, Harbour Master, will remain in custody until sentencing. Cooper, […]

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Mexico: Troops Patrol Ciudad Juarez After Deadly Drug Cartel Instigated Riot

(CNN) Hundreds of Mexican soldiers were sent to the border city of Juarez after a prison face-off between members of two rival cartels caused a riot and shootouts that killed 11 people, most of them civilians, authorities said. Los Chapos, members of the infamous Sinaloa Cartel formerly led by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, and local […]

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Puerto Rico: From One Crisis to Another 5 Years After Hurricane Maria

(CNN) A week before former governor of Puerto Rico Wanda Vázquez was arrested by the FBI on bribery charges, pop superstar Bad Bunny riled up a throng of concertgoers in San Juan, calling out the current governor and the island’s private electric company in an expletive-filled rant. “We have a government over us that messes […]

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